October 2008
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Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir interviews...
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“Writing a weblog today isn’t the bright idea it was four years ago. The...”
– Paul Boutin reports on the death of the blog. (via Darren Wood)
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Watch“Adiantum Pedatum”, one of eight short animations made by Brazilian motion graphic designers for KM M MM, São Paulo’s design week. (via Reform & Revolution)
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WatchIndustrial designer Dieter Rams interviewed for the Cold War Modern exhibition. (via Michael C. Place)
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Multicolr →
Search Flickr by colour using this database of information extracted from 10 million creative commons images. (via Shaun Inman)
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Hypetape →
A Muxtape/Hype Machine mashup allowing users to create and share mixtapes of tracks other people have been talking about on the internet. Jarred Bishop is doing sterling work since relocating to Wellington. What’s in the water down there, boy? (via Darren Wood)
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“I’ve been beta testing this for the past month and it’s absolutely fantastic....”
– Andrew Wilkinson on forthcoming iPhone e-book reader Classics. This is how you build interest in an app prior to launch, the demo video looks slick and the price is good.
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Thanks, Smashing Magazine →
Marshall Lorenzo:
Clap your hands and say yeah.
Well hey, this made my day, some quite esteemed company there. Good spotting.
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Domainr →
A domain search tool that provides clever domain name ideas for simple phrases. (Matt McInerney)
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“Shankill Butchers” by The...
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Vimeo Plus! →
Increased weekly storage, HD embedding, player customisations, ad-free for US$59.95 per year. Here’s the announcement.
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Watch“Taller Than Trees”, a stop-motion animated short by Joseph Mann. (via Drawn!)
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Jcrop →
Image cropping plugin for jQuery. Very polished.
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And speaking of Andrew Bird, Taylor at Music For...
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“This is the best script I’ve ever read. I’ll never get it.”
– Jon Hamm after reading Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men script, and seven auditions before getting the part of Don Draper.
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“My ego would love to say that I was ‘head-hunted’ for the job, but I have to...”
– Jon Hicks (the talented Brit responsible for the Firefox and Thunderbird icons) is taking up a full-time position as senior designer at Opera Software.
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WatchTwo minutes from the middle of the pilot for The Remnants, written and directed by John August. It was shot during the WGA strike in February 2008, using the SAG internet agreement. (via Darren Wood)
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“You really feel the difference when typing on the on-screen keyboard. A firm...”
– RIM’s Blackberry Storm doesn’t have the OS finesse of an iPhone, but its tactile feedback screen sounds like a winner, according to BusinessWeek’s Stephen H. Wildstrom. (via John Gruber)
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“Can you predict anything else with this? Can you run your numbers and predict...”
– Stephen Colbert interviews Five Thirty Eight’s Nate Silver, who’s using his day job as a baseball statistician to help predict the US election outcome.
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“Blindness emerges onscreen both overdressed and undermotivated, scrupulously...”
– Variety’s Justin Chang reviews Fernando Meirelles’ adaptation of José Saramago’s 1995 novel.
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WatchThe opening five minutes of Fernando Meirelles’ new film Blindness, based on Portuguese author José Saramago’s dystopian novel of the same name about a sudden outbreak of “white blindness” in an unnamed city. One of my favourite books, and I like the visual style here, but Charlie Jane Anders’ review (contains spoilers) is not all positive.
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“Are you kidding me? Nobody checked for an airway when she first went down? I’m...”
– Penis in a Rowboat discovers just how dark kids’ fairytales can be. (via Ethan Marcotte)
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Choon →
Simple music recommendation service from Jarred Bishop, clever lad.
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95bFM’s Jose Barbosa interviews Muxtape...